{"id":1233499,"date":"2022-10-25T04:11:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/sunak-to-become-first-british-asian-prime-minister\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T04:11:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T04:11:09","slug":"sunak-to-become-first-british-asian-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/sunak-to-become-first-british-asian-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunak to become first British-Asian prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Rishi Sunak will become the first British-Asian Prime Minister (PM) after winning the Conservative Party\u2019s leadership contest.<\/p>\n<p>Sunak, 42, the youngest PM in more than a century, was the ex-chancellor who oversaw the nation\u2019s finances during the COVID-19 pandemic and the only contender to gain enough support from MPs.<\/p>\n<p>His rival, Penny Mordaunt, dropped out of the race in the final minutes before nominations closed.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee, which organised the contest, confirmed only one nomination was received.<\/p>\n<p>Sunak was greeted by rapturous applause and banging on desks as he arrived to address Tory MPs following the result.<\/p>\n<p>He told them the UK was facing a tough period and there were going to be \u201cno easy answers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his statement at Conservative campaign headquarters in London, Sunak paid tribute to Liz Truss for her dignified leadership under difficult circumstances abroad and at home.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed humility and honour to have the support of his fellow MPs and be elected leader.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIt is the greatest privilege of my life to be able to serve the party I love and give back to the country I owe so much to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While calling for stability and unity, he warned that UK faces great economic challenges. He disclosed his intention to work round the clock, adding: \u201cI pledge that I will serve you with integrity and humility.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rishi Sunak will become the first British-Asian Prime Minister (PM) after winning the Conservative Party\u2019s leadership contest. Sunak, 42, the youngest PM in more than a century, was the ex-chancellor who oversaw the nation\u2019s finances during the COVID-19 pandemic and the only contender to gain enough support from MPs. His rival, Penny Mordaunt, dropped out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1142572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}